The announcement dealt with the closure of the manufacturing facility in Oshawa, not the closure of General Motors Canada. HQ is in Oshawa and some distance away from production plants. Many GM Canada operations not affected by today's announcement.
Generally operations means manufacturing not office but I could be wrong. Its a dramatic gut wrenching headline though. The plant has no cars to build anymore as the Impala and Cadillac XTS are axed. The headlines are mixed but as I understand GM Canada will still exist. Right now they build a couple of cars in Oshawa but GM Canada is more than that, there is Ingersol, St Catherines, Markham, Woodstock that I know of plus a National dealer network selling cars built all over the world.
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GM plant in Oshawa, Ont., to shut down
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I'd say GM Vintage has all the numbers/information needed to service us since they haven't made any new Pontiacs lately.
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I think there were some price adjustments. But I thought there were just subtle changes and not sure if it was George off hand but I just recall thinking it was different
I remember one day in the 1980s by chance riding my motorcycle to Oshawa past the one plant, then riding north uptown to the other assembly plant. During my 80's visit I could smell the paint from the nearby plant, not something that would continue much longer as environmental enforcement would soon set strict VOC limits. That plant was torn down in '99. Beside it was an old 4-story building from the art-deco era. That was a GM office of some sort, so I walked in and asked the receptionist who to talk to regarding info on my Chevelle. Dave Dow got on the phone to reception and asked my VIN. I recited it off the top and several weeks later I had what they were handing out back then as information packets.
It had the microfiche page showing a snapshot window of 50 consecutive build Chevelles, all described in codes including the rail-head destination. Super interesting stuff when you see how stripped most cars went out the door, how every car that went to the prairies had a block heater, a few really stripped Chevelles with 2-tone paint went out east, & someone in Quebec ordered a really cool 327 4-speed Malibu coupe with disk brakes, 11" clutch, h.d. everything, plus power windows & walnut wheel.
You know, even if GM isn't cranking out vehicles in Canada (except for whatever currently comes out of Ingersol) you would think they still need an administrative office on the ground.
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Justin Trudeau and Gerry Dias are going to fight for this to the end and well they should, the auto industry has long been an engine for our economy. I wish them well in this endeavour.
Justin Trudeau and Gerry Dias are going to fight for this to the end and well they should, the auto industry has long been an engine for our economy. I wish them well in this endeavour.
I'm betting they lose or at best, prolong the closing a bit. The only way there is a "win" is if you convince GM to build a new plant for a new model.
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Mahone Bay, NS Still not old enough to need an automatic
Justin Trudeau and Gerry Dias are going to fight for this to the end and well they should, the auto industry has long been an engine for our economy. I wish them well in this endeavour.
I'm betting they lose or at best, prolong the closing a bit. The only way there is a "win" is if you convince GM to build a new plant for a new model.
Yep.
Start up Pontiac and Oldsmobile again.
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Justin Trudeau and Gerry Dias are going to fight for this to the end and well they should, the auto industry has long been an engine for our economy. I wish them well in this endeavour.
GM only needs to give Unifor a 1 year notice to shut down the plant. This plant has been on the chopping block so many times. GM is not interested in keeping its plant there. The best you can hope is that the government helps to retrain these employees, not give false hope.
